API Design Contracts in the South East

API Design
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for API Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited API Design over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 203 230
Rank change year-on-year +23 +27 -21
Contract jobs citing API Design 12 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.18% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.20% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 28
10th Percentile £535 £600 £509
25th Percentile £550 £619 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £634 £725 £597
90th Percentile £638 £763 £638
England median daily rate £575 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

API Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

API Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing API Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for API Design in the South East

API Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing API Design in the South East.

Daily rate trend for API Design in the South East

API Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing API Design in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for API Design in the South East

API Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing API Design in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for API Design in the South East

API Design
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing API Design within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +17 11 £600 - 4
Berkshire - 8 £613 - 1
Buckinghamshire +24 3 £550 - 2
East Sussex - 1 £400 - 1
API Design
England

API Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Designer
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
1 5 (41.67%) Lead Designer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
1 5 (41.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) React
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) J2EE
3 1 (8.33%) Laravel
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) API Development
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Coaching
2 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (25.00%) OWASP
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (8.33%) EAI
5 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) System Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) PHP
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle